Wickham Church of England Primary School

Home Learning

8.6.20

Year 3 & 4

We hope you enjoyed the home learning last week. Although we are sending these weekly, don’t worry if

you are still working on other packs – all the home learning packs will stay on our website. Click on Teaching

and Learning/ Home Learning.

Reading

Read the following facts from the book with fluency and expression:

Most of the planet is covered in water but we are not always taking good care of it. There are

many things that humans do that can damage the sea and the creatures that live there.

Lots of plastic rubbish ends up in the sea. This harms animals and their habitats. We can help to

stop this by using fewer things made from plastic.

Large ships spill harmful oil into the oceans. Their noisy engines make it difficult for sea

mammals to communicate.

Unlike natural materials such as wood, plastic takes 400 years to break down.

Some types of fish are almost extinct because we have caught and eaten too many of them.

Sea creatures can choke on plastic rubbish. Sometimes large fish eat lumps of plastic, which

make them feel unwell.

Humans have burned lots of fossil fuels, warming up the planet. This means that sea levels have

risen and sea water has become more acidic, making it hard for some sea life to survive.

Can you create your own double-page spread using these facts and any others you can find? Here is an example:

Can you match the sub-headings to the paragraphs?

Writing

Use this picture to complete the tasks below:

Perfect picture!

Imagine the same thing was happening in your classroom! Can you draw what it would look like?

Question time!

What does the word ‘perplexed’ mean?

Why are the scientists huddling around a machine?

Why is their laboratory underground?

What do they do in their laboratory?

Do you think anyone knows about it?

Why might they be in ‘BIG’ trouble this time?

What is happening in the picture?

Do you think this is just happening in their home?

Sentence challenge!

Can you make a list of verbs that could replace ‘went’ in my sentences below?

The girl went across the room.

Can you add an adverb to this sentence?

Can you use the adverb in a different place?

Can you improve the sentence in any other way?

Sick sentences!

These sentences are ‘sick’ and need help to get better. Can you help?

Something bad had happened. Something had gone wrong. Objects started going around the room. The girls started going around the room.

Can you write your own story based on this story starter!

The scientists huddled around the machine looking perplexed. Their laboratory was buried deep underground, away from prying eyes. Usually their experiments went completely unnoticed, apart from the occasional smell or waft of grey smoke that made its way to the surface, but this particular experiment would certainly not avoid the headlines… They were in BIG trouble...

Spelling

Don’t forget to practise the list of common exception words which we sent home. This list is also available

on our website under ‘Home Learning’.

Carefully check any writing you produce for spelling errors, particularly the common exception words for

Year 1 to Year4.

There are SPAG lessons incorporated into the Writing lessons on The Oak Academy Online Classroom too.

Maths

This week we have included a series of maths puzzles for you to solve:

We still recommend the following resources for maths activities:

White Rose Home Learning for Year 3 and for Year 4.

The resources can be found here:

Year 3 - https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Year 4 - https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

Free, daily online maths lessons for Y3 & Y4 led by maths educator Gareth Metcalfe.

The lessons can be found here:

http://www.iseemaths.com/

(Go to ‘Home Learning’ then ‘Home Learning, Y3 & Y4’)

Remember to learn and practise times tables. Can you learn them all before we return to school?

https://ttrockstars.com/

Happy home learning everyone!